{"id":2380,"date":"2026-02-24T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:19:48","slug":"no-4-why-defence-wont-be-offshored-unlike-every-other-industry-europe-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/no-4-why-defence-wont-be-offshored-unlike-every-other-industry-europe-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4. Why defence won\u2019t be offshored (unlike every other industry Europe lost)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2380\" class=\"elementor elementor-2380\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dfbe4ba elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dfbe4ba\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6ad2da\" data-id=\"c6ad2da\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07c6ed6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07c6ed6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can offshore electronics.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can offshore EV battery plants.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You cannot offshore defence.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Why?<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You don\u2019t outsource critical systems to geopolitical competitors;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You don\u2019t manufacture complex military tech in low-cost regions;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can\u2019t recreate decades of aerospace and defence culture elsewhere;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And defence demand is government-backed, it doesn\u2019t vanish overnight.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is why defence &amp; aerospace are becoming Europe\u2019s new industrial backbone.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But here is the uncomfortable truth:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An industry is only as strong as its supply chain.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And Europe\u2019s supply chain is the weakest part of the system.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can offshore electronics.You can offshore EV battery plants.You cannot offshore defence. Why? You don\u2019t outsource critical systems to geopolitical competitors; You don\u2019t manufacture complex military tech in low-cost regions; You can\u2019t recreate decades of aerospace and defence culture elsewhere; And defence demand is government-backed, it doesn\u2019t vanish overnight. This is why defence &amp; aerospace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}